Red,
As much as I would love to see the Watchtower Organization have their magazines used as a rectal suppository I don't think they will be going away real soon. Ignorant people need ignorant ideas to cling to. As long as there are ignorant people running around the earth religions and philosophies that use the ignorance of others to manipulate and excrete such bull biscuits will continue to exist.
When leaders build a following based on lies and then tell their followers that others will try and say what they originally told them are lies, and the followers still believe the original lie, you are pretty much wrenched. When you try and show them that they have been lied to, and they expect you to do so, it turns the truth into an automatic lie and the original lie into a more definite truth. It is a catch 22 perpetual lie that keeps looking like a fulfilled prophecy. Accepting the first lie is the hook, trying to explain the real truth and expose the original lie is what sets the hook. It's really quite brilliant in a warped sense if you want to look at it that way. As we have all seen, it definitely works. The murder of several million Jews, Cambodians, and non Christian early European cultures are proof of the effectiveness of that technique.
The beauty of dealing with the bungled and beguiled of the world is once they believe something and have devoted their life to that belief it is too psychological devastating for them to view any kind of factual reality. They have accepted an alternative way of thinking thus reinventing a new reality in their minds. The reality as rational and open minded people experience is no longer acceptable to them.
Controlling a persons reality is the key to controlling the person. No matter how much evidence you put in front of them, in their own warped reality it simply does not and cannot exist.
That is a very hard thing to rectal-fly, especially if the one who is living the alternat reality does not recognize anything that needs to be corrected.
Dave